Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew.

I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

I'm not a girl that will lay in diamonds but I will run through the flowers of the seeds we plant together.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery

When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

The argument is at an end.

Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life.